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Date:      Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:26:02 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, "Steven E. Ames" <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>, Valentin Chopov <valentin@valcho.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CURRENT is freezing again ... 
Message-ID:  <200011171826.LAA75925@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:48:35 %2B0200." <2967.974461715@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> 
References:  <2967.974461715@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>  

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In message <2967.974461715@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sheldon Hearn writes:
: The problem with a hard lock-up out of which you can't escape into the
: debugger is that it makes meaningful bug reports impossible.  My non-SMP
: workstation has exhibited apparently arbitrary lock-ups since the advent
: of SMPng.

You can also short IOCHK to ground to get an NMI which kicks you into
the debugger, even in an interrupt context.  I have a card I built
from an old multi-function card to do this.  I think it is A1 and A2,
but I don't have my ISA bus spec handy.

Warner


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